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“Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”
“Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.
“How do you know?”
Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.
That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.
“He has to know,” Andrew says.
“Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”
Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.
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25 Jun 2026
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Maybe Nicky sucks at being a replacement dad, maybe he has no idea how to deal with two teenagers who just went through one of the most horrific moments of their lives, but hey. He can feed them, and he can make sure they have pumpkin bread on their birthday.
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“Sveta,” Ilya answers, letting his mouth sink into the forward sound of his mother tongue: “Are you okay?”
“It’s Alexei,” she says. Her voice is a stolid calm. Ilya stares absently ahead, finding a spot on the way to steady his gaze on. Across the thousands of miles between Ottawa and Moscow, Svetlana says: “It was an overdose.”
His ears ring, a high pitched sound of radio feedback.
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Ilya becomes the guardian of his sixteen year old niece after his brother passes away.
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22 Jun 2026
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Neil Josten isn't anything. Not a real person, and not an alpha, beta, or omega, either.
He's mostly just trying to stay alive.
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22 Jun 2026
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He wasn’t getting up.
Neil’s teammates were shaking his shoulder and pulling off his helmet. Exposed to the camera, Neil’s skin was waxy and pale. With his eyes shut and his body limp, he looked painfully young.
The medics forced the players away and were taking his pulse.
He wasn’t getting up.
Andrew’s blood turned to ice as memories of Neil, pale, unconscious, and bandaged in a hospital bed, came flooding into his mind.
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14 Jun 2026